>Really, did you measure it? Since we are, scientists and everything? Where are the numbers? This remark should (also) have been directed at his parent comment

>Really, did you measure it? Since we are, scientists and everything? Where are the numbers? This remark should (also) have been directed at his parent comment, who made the contrary claim without any measurement either. > Second, if you think the "parsing a XML UI declaration" is in any meaningful way more expensive that imperatively calling a bunch of UI functions directly, you have a distorted idea of what makes a UI slow, or of the time needed to parse an XML file and initialized controls based on it... The numbers?